Storage Made Easy, formerly SME Storage, unifies storage with its Cloud Service Brokerage solution, providing complete access to files via a single management tool, no matter the file location.
“Managing files spread across multiple onsite and public cloud information services is more than challenging, it actually interferes with business operations,” says CEO Jim Liddle. “We’re directly addressing ‘cloud sprawl’ and the ‘shadow IT’ effect these services are imposing on organizations.”
A proven player in cloud service brokerage, Storage Made Easy provides cohesive access to multiple internal and external data services and unifies management, security, governance, and search. The service offers strong audit, BYOD management, and compliance capabilities coupled with fast cross-service file search from any client or device.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Dell Buys IaaS Automation Start-Up; Forms New Division
Hours after releasing its lackluster fiscal third-quarter results, Dell first thing
Friday morning announced that it’s bought privately held infrastructure
automation start-up Gale Technologies to fuel its all-important advance into
the cloud, the only bright spot in Dell’s numbers.
xRTML 3.0 Makes Websites Come “Alive”
The eXtensible Realtime Multiplatform 3.0 Language that is transforming the World Wide Web into the Realtime Web. Realtime also launched a competition for developers to submit their Realtime apps before a distinguished panel of judges.
xRTML 2.0 was a release we did with a lot of core changes that we felt were necessary at the time. It was something too big to be a minor release so we decided to increase the major release and launch it as 2.0. This new release, 3.0, introduces a lot of new and exciting features, such as the new templating model, storage, new inheritance model and versioning, and it’s a real breakthrough for our framework. If I could, I would even name it 4.0 or 5.0! But I think people would think we were nuts if we skipped a version.
What’s Next for the Cloud in 2013?
The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently released findings from its annual CIO survey that indicate CIOs around the world plan to commit more of their budgets on IT outsourcing in 2013 to boost productivity and reduce costs. Not surprisingly, cloud computing was cited as a top application in 2012 and I expect that to be the case next year as well.
When I speak with CIOs and IT managers many are still surprised that Xerox has been a player in the business cloud for years. But as the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management, we’ve always contended that the cloud is an integral piece of simplifying the way work gets done – offering on-demand technology that’s scalable, affordable and can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Violence Continues in Region of ICT Promise
So here we go again. Serious violence, if not outright war, is imminent in Gaza and Israel. This time, Hamas has rockets that can travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, upping the ante a few notches.
Violence is a lot uglier up close than as seen on TV, whether delivered by land, sea, piloted aircraft, or drones. Delivered by our continuously improving technology, it obliterates not only buildings and people, but the promise of improved lives brought on by our continuously improving technology.
To that end, we’ve included Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in our Tau Institute research, as we seek to uncover the developing world’s diamonds in the rough and the developed world’s sterling performers. We’ve also included several Gulf States and Northern African nations.
This entire part of the world does well in our rankings, exceptionally so when we consider the violence that’s been part of its fabric. (And I say this knowing that more than 100 people will be murdered throughout the United States this week-end.)
Among the 102 countries we’ve surveyed, we find Egypt, Yemen, Jordan Syria ranking near or above the world average in potential, with Egypt scoring in the world’s Top 20. Among developed nations, Israel scores among the Top 10 with the most potential.
The Middle East and North Africa aren’t as dynamic overall in our findings as are Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia, but the regions are on a par with Latin America and have several places with strong ICT growth and great potential. This message must be delivered behind the podium or lectern at a peaceful hotel or in a classroom, not in chaotic streets in the midst of an air raid.
My hopes are that madness will not rule the week-end in this part of the world, despite all the evidence that it will.
Violence Continues in Region of ICT Promise
So here we go again. Serious violence, if not outright war, is imminent in Gaza and Israel. This time, Hamas has rockets that can travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, upping the ante a few notches.
Violence is a lot uglier up close than as seen on TV, whether delivered by land, sea, piloted aircraft, or drones. Delivered by our continuously improving technology, it obliterates not only buildings and people, but the promise of improved lives brought on by our continuously improving technology.
To that end, we’ve included Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in our Tau Institute research, as we seek to uncover the developing world’s diamonds in the rough and the developed world’s sterling performers. We’ve also included several Gulf States and Northern African nations.
This entire part of the world does well in our rankings, exceptionally so when we consider the violence that’s been part of its fabric. (And I say this knowing that more than 100 people will be murdered throughout the United States this week-end.)
Among the 102 countries we’ve surveyed, we find Egypt, Yemen, Jordan Syria ranking near or above the world average in potential, with Egypt scoring in the world’s Top 20. Among developed nations, Israel scores among the Top 10 with the most potential.
The Middle East and North Africa aren’t as dynamic overall in our findings as are Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia, but the regions are on a par with Latin America and have several places with strong ICT growth and great potential. This message must be delivered behind the podium or lectern at a peaceful hotel or in a classroom, not in chaotic streets in the midst of an air raid.
My hopes are that madness will not rule the week-end in this part of the world, despite all the evidence that it will.
Latest Cloud Application Suite from Open-Xchange
Here is the announcement of the new version of Open-Xchange – a web app built for the cloud using HTML 5 and JavaScript for email, calendar, contacts, tasks, documents, plus integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
The design engineers at German software maker Open-Xchange today unveiled OX App Suite, providing individuals with a single intuitive way of communication and sharing, across platforms, across devices and even across connections.
OX App Suite will be available next month as a cloud application service from providers, as well as software for on-premises installations. The Suite comes with a web desktop “Portal,” and with a set of applications to help users easily manage their most important personal and professional data including email, contacts, calendars, pictures, music, videos, along with any kind of document, as well as other services like Google Mail, Hotmail, along with data from Facebook and LinkedIn.
Latest Cloud Application Suite from Open-Xchange
Here is the announcement of the new version of Open-Xchange – a web app built for the cloud using HTML 5 and JavaScript for email, calendar, contacts, tasks, documents, plus integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
The design engineers at German software maker Open-Xchange today unveiled OX App Suite, providing individuals with a single intuitive way of communication and sharing, across platforms, across devices and even across connections.
OX App Suite will be available next month as a cloud application service from providers, as well as software for on-premises installations. The Suite comes with a web desktop “Portal,” and with a set of applications to help users easily manage their most important personal and professional data including email, contacts, calendars, pictures, music, videos, along with any kind of document, as well as other services like Google Mail, Hotmail, along with data from Facebook and LinkedIn.
HP Claims to Have the Only Purpose-Built Big Data Servers
HP Thursday put out an x86 server it claims is purpose-built for Big Data.
It says existing architectures aren’t designed to handle the specific needs of Big Data workloads such as Hadoop, MPP data warehouses, Big Data analytics and object stores, and that early deployments have returned suboptimal results in terms of performance and cost.
It claims its new wonder will save the user up to $1 million over three years.
As the kind of ultra-dense solution required by these workloads, the new HP ProLiant SL4500 server series is supposed to provide maximum performance, productivity and cost-effectiveness.
It’s said to consume up to 50% less space and 61% less power for 31% less money while using 63% fewer cables.
Zetta.net Hybrid Cloud Backup Outperforms Appliance-Based Solutions
Zetta.net has announced that a report by analyst firm Storage Strategies Now highlights Zetta.net’s second generation hybrid cloud backup solution, acknowledging that it outperforms, and eliminates the disadvantages of, appliance-based data protection systems. According to the report, appliance-based systems add extra hardware costs, present a single choke and failure point, and induce complications for distributed offices, particularly for managed service providers supporting hundreds of customers.
The report asserts that Zetta.net’s recent addition of Lean Local Copy makes “an excellent trade-off” against hardware appliances, and enables local backup and recovery without resorting to additional hardware boxes which add complexity and drag time to recovery. The interaction of Zetta.net software directly with its Smart Cloud “provides significant increases in the speed of offsite backups and disaster recovery,” with much less to manage – which can be particularly important in distributed environments and locations operated by a managed service provider.